Screening and Discussion: "Gideon's Army"

April 18, 2013 —

WHAT

Screening and Discussion: “Gideon’s Army”

WHO

Jo-Ann Wallace, President and CEO, National Legal Aid & Defender AssociationAbbe Smith, Professor, Director of the Criminal Defense & Prisoner Advocacy Clinic, Co-Director of the E. Barrett Prettyman Program, Georgetown University Law CenterAlec Karakatsanis, Attorney, Special Litigation Division, Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia

WHEN

Friday, April 19, 2013
Screening: 6:30 p.m.
Discussion: 8:30 p.m.

WHERE

NOTE

A 2013 Sundance award-winning documentary by Georgetown Law alumna Dawn Porter (L’93), “Gideon’s Army” follows the personal stories of three young public defenders in the Deep South challenging the assumptions that drive a strained criminal justice system to the breaking point.

This screening is part of the Georgetown Law Library’s Equal Justice Film Festival, which is commemorating the 50th anniversary of the landmark decision in Gideon v. Wainwright.

This event is co-sponsored by the Friends of the Georgetown Law Library, National Equal Justice Library, The Innocence Project, Georgetown Criminal Law Association, the Georgetown chapter of the National Lawyers’ Guild and Law Docs.

About Georgetown Law

Georgetown University Law Center is one of the world´s premier law schools. It is pre-eminent in several areas, including constitutional, international, tax and clinical law, and the faculty is among the largest in the nation. Drawing on its Jesuit heritage, it has a strong tradition of public service and is dedicated to the principle that law is but a means, justice is the end.